This is an analysis of The Maori Pig Market by Banjo Paterson.
In distant New Zealand, whose tresses of gold
The billows are ceaselessly combing,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaabcbccb dbddb dXddb ebeXb
- Stanza lengths: 10,5,5,5,
- Metre: 01011011001 010110010 01001011011 11101011001 010110010 11001001001 010111010 01011101011 11001101001 010010010 11101011001 011010110 11011011001 110101101001 1101010010 01101011001 010110100 01101011001 001001111001 1010010010 01001001001 1110110010 11011001011 111010000100000 1110010010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
in, his
Anaphora
he
